Jealousy when seen in a small child, whose family has just grown to include a new baby, is easily identifiable as an insecurity. The child is worried that there won’t be enough love and attention to go around, and that they will receive less.

In adults it can be harder to recognize, but it still has the same roots. Someone else has, or is perceived to have, something the jealous person wants.

Identifying jealousy in your own or someone else’s writing can help deal with it.

Knowing from where the behavior stems makes coping with it more possible.

Well, nothing directly, however Olympic athletes are obviously very good at setting their goals and keeping on going until they reach them and how you set and achieve your goals (or not!) shows clearly in your writing.

And the goood news is, if you don’t already have them, you can get them.